An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Executive
Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927,
namely:

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, the excavation
and preservation of archaeologic remains under the direction of the

Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees, the preparation of manuscripts, drawings, and illustrations, the purchase
of books and periodicals, and traveling expenses, $57,160, of which sum not to exceed $46,000, may be expended for personal
services in the District of Columbia